Got myself into a pickle!
The question simply put is....what conditions or settings would cause songs to get into a library on manual import, yet minutes later be removed?
I tried unchecking "ignore files previously removed" in configure auto import to no avail.
I try creating a new library and a fresh import. No dice.
I've been working wonderfully for years. Problem started when I lost a hard drive. I tried pointing that PC to a shared drive, where that share it is a local drive to another PC in the house also running Media Center. I tried using the share as a quasi local drive by pointing MC to it. I also tried using MC to connect to the files by connecting to the server running on that machine. The library got created but with lots and lots of dups. Somehow a small percentage but nonetheless many files were added with the file path of the mapped drive letter "b" and the dups also with a network path (\\mediaserver). In a clean up effort, I apparently deleted the library entries on the PC with the local hard drive. I would have thought no big deal but after every import the files get removed from the library. I've tried several times. I tried a new library as well. The import and then removal from the files in the library is like clock work so I believe the application is following instructions, I just don't know where they might be set or a way around it.
Help most appreciated.
Larry
